Category: Videos

Let’s face it…not all pitchers are going to throw 90 mph plus. Yet today, MLB scouts are hard at work looking for pitchers who pretty much must reach that number as high school pitchers and more like 95 as college pitchers. Major league teams are clearly looking for pitchers who can light up the radar…

What should pitches do during the off-season to improve their pitching skills, their velocity and their strength and conditioning? I learned many years ago the value of using the off-season by Charlie Green, a very successful and wise former junior college coach. Charlie always said: “Pitchers are made during the off-season.” I could not agree…

Many pitchers feel they have good control but below average pitching velocity. This seems to be the case with the majority of high school pitchers…most seem to be stuck in the upper 70’s to low 80’s. So how does a pitcher improve his pitching velocity without losing his pinpoint control. I hate to make it…

It is a well known fact that most coaches and pitching instructors do not use video to provide the only real accurate way to assess a pitcher’s mechanics. Instead they simply watch the pitcher’s mechanics using only the naked eye. Why is this a poor way of assessing the pitching motion and helping him to…

This is a side-by-side video analysis comparing a 10 year old’s pitching mechanics to MLB pitcher Zach Greinke so we can help the 10 year old improve his velocity,his pitching mechanics while reducing the risk of an arm injury. If a 10 or 11 year old loves pitching, then this is the perfect age to…

Improving pitching mechanics so that needed adjustments stick is challenging. Many pitchers, although they want to make changes in their mechanics and have good intentions, find that the improvements they hoped to make do not stick. So they revert back to their old way. This is very common and probably occurs more often than not…

I am going to compare two top major league high velocity pitchers: Aroldis Chapman, the closer for the Cincinnati Reds, on the left and on the right is Yu Darvish, the Texas Rangers number one pitcher who is having a great year. As you can see I’ve made Chapman a right-handed pitcher for the purposes…

This is a front angle of Reds’ Aroldis Chapman on the left and Rangers’ Yu Darvish on the right. You may want to also look at the side angle comparison that I did. From this direct front angle we’re going to take a look at a couple of things that are similar and things that…

In this video we will be looking at the pitching mechanics of Seattle Mariners’ Felix Hernandez or “King Felix” as they call him up there. Having another great year, obviously, low ERA as usual. That’s obviously a sign of a great pitcher. Keep that ERA down in the high 2’s, low 3’s. He does a great…

Here’s another video analysis lesson. I’ve got a basic lesson here for you, using Mets’ Matt Harvey as a great example of what we call safe, efficient, high velocity mechanics. This is a game that Matt Harvey pitched against the Nationals on April 19th. Stephen Strasburg was the Nationals’ pitcher, but Matt Harvey came out…

Another issue of The Pitching Factor with another pitching velocity tip. The first tip today is going to be about moving the body fast to improve pitching velocity. About 90% of the pitchers we see, whether we’re doing Video Analysis or they come here for lessons, are moving their body too slow. Their tempo is…

Here’s another video analysis. If you want a side-by-side video of your son to find an additional 5-7mph that he has hidden within him, visit our personal Video Analysis service. Here, we’ve got two high velocity major league pitchers. We’ve got Matt Harvey, New York Mets’ right-hander on the left and Justin Verlander of the…

Coach Mills here with another issue of “The Pitching Factor”. I am going to give you some pitching tips that will increase your velocity. You can probably put these into practice during your next bullpen, maybe even during your next game, because what you want to be focused on is building safe, efficient, high velocity mechanics….

In this video, I’ve put two major league pitchers side by side. I have Matt Harvey with the Mets’ on the left side and Stephen Stasburg on the right. This was the matchup that they had on April 19, 2013. Matt Harvey came out on top in that game. I am going to compare their…

Let’s talk about the curveball. Curveball tips, curveball myths, how to practice the curveball, how to have a good one. The main thing is, we don’t want to get you injured, so let’s talk about how to throw a curveball correctly. The biggest myth out there is the curveball is more stressful than the fastball….

One of the things that people ask all the time is “How do you make changes in mechanics?” You know, I have got some mechanical faults; my son’s got mechanical faults. What do I do? Well, the first thing you have to do is identify the right fault to work on. Obviously, if you work…

Another episode of The Pitching Factor and today’s issue is about “Where’s the oomph?” What do you mean oomph? Well, a lot of pitchers out there don’t understand that if they want to throw the ball with maximum velocity, they have to put more oomph into it. In other words, many pitchers say, well, you…

Another issue of the Pitching Factor is here and today I want to talk about how to prepare for a game. I got a call from a father of a 10 year old pitcher. The boy had walked four to five hitters over his last two games and the father was concerned. He wanted to…

Here’s another video analysis lesson – a kind of interesting comparison between a couple of big major league lefties. We have Madison Bumgarner, starting pitcher with the Giants, on the left hand side and Aroldis Chapman, closer for the Reds, on the right. Both videos of each pitcher are from 2011. Bumgarner is listed at…

Coach Mills here with another issue of “The Pitching Factor.” Today I want to talk about common myths related to pitching velocity. Of course one of the biggest myths is: You need to get bigger and stronger in order to throw harder. There is no evidence to back that up. What you need in pitching…

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In 2004 we developed the first evidence-based pitching program based on sports science research, instead of common coaching beliefs. Through this research we've also learned video analysis is still the best and most accurate way to assess pitching mechanics. We not only show pitchers at all levels their faults and the adjustments, but work with there style in order to improve their velocity and control, all while reducing their risk of arm injuries. The true difference about our coaching methods are simple, our clients will truly feel the difference and that's the only true way towards improvement and development.